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Meet the Faculty

Meet the Faculty

"Educating Outside the Lines"

Educating Outside the Lines, Bard College at Simon’s Rock on a “New Pedagogy” for the Twenty First Century was published in May, 2011. Edited by Nancy Yanoshak, faculty in history and women’s studies, the book is the result of the collaborative efforts of 29 Simon's Rock faculty members and alumni.

Selected reviews:

“What a delight to find this wonderful volume. It does something that I've long contemplated…”| more |

“In an age in which, arguably, the art of conversation is dead, preconceived notions are…”| more |

“American education can only be as great as is our willingness to experiment outside of the conventions…”| more |

“This exquisitely crafted set of essays illuminates the rich gifts that a humanistic design for…”| more |

A college’s faculty to student ratio is a quantitative—not qualitative—description. We could tell you that our student to faculty ratio is 9 to 1 (which it is), but that wouldn’t mean much if most of our professors showed up to give an occasional dry lecture and then scurried back home. That doesn’t happen here. When we hire new faculty, we look for professors who are doing important, ambitious work in their fields, who want to be challenged by their students, who run their classes as high-level, high-spirited discussions, who believe that teaching is a two-way process, and that it happens in and out of the classroom. Our professors don’t just teach; they advise, collaborate with, counsel, nurture, and mentor students. You’ll know your professors by their first names, you’ll meet for coffee at a café or for dinner at their houses, you’ll run into them in town or at the dining hall or at a concert. You’ll come to think of them—and they’ll come to think of you—as especially bright and interesting colleagues.

Faculty A-Z

Asma Abbas (Division Head in Social Studies), PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, Political Science, Philosophy

Milo Alvarez, PhD (candidate), University of California, Los Angeles, History